Sled

The 2021 double champions are a prominent international team that is headed by New York Yacht Club owner-driver Takashi Okura, who before coming in to the 52 SUPER SERIES  raced at top grand prix level for about 15 years with success in the Farr 40 and Melges 32 classes in particular.

Sled have been regular podium contenders at most regattas thanks to a very strong group of experienced top professionals, many of them former Team New Zealand sailors most notably including six times America’s Cup winner Murray Jones as tactician and Don Cowie -who runs the project – as mainsheet trimmer.

Winners overall in 2021 and Rolex TP52 World Champions, securing both titles at the conclusion of a thrilling late season finale in Majorca (Spain), Sled finished fourth at the end of the 2023 season and the same again in 2024.

An outstanding memory for the Sled team was the last regatta of 2019 in a breezy Porto Cervo. They were unstoppable, reeling off six race wins from nine starts. For 2025 Italian ace Francesco Bruni returns to the afterguard to reprise the line up at the back of the boat which won the two key titles in 2021.